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The gaunt face of 14-year-old prisoner Czesława Kwoka stares back through time in a haunting Auschwitz mugshot restored this year by Brazilian artist Marina Amaral.
Taken just minutes after she was beaten to within an inch of her life, the images give a human face to one of the concentration camp’s 1.1 million victims.
The painstakingly recolored photos show the teenager trying to hold back tears after being repeatedly struck by a guard’s club. More from the artist: http://www.marinamaral.com/portfolio-2/
tittysprnkles420
I don't know if it's just me but I just want to grab her and hug her and tell her it's going to be all right. (Even though it isn't)
NatesSauceLab
Been trying to get through Shindler's List all week. Every year I watch WWII movies and documentaries as a kind of duty to society.
ArtOfKarolMichalec
Czesławo nigdy o Tobie nie zapomnimy! __________________________________________ Czesława, we will never forget you.
PrincessChub
I just finished reading Night by Elie Wiesel and it is a haunting book that EVERYONE should read. Audible book is worth listening to also.
Silvery1
So incredibly heart-wrenching to look at this sweet child. We all need to be reminded of brutality that doesn't leave marks on the outside.
alovelypintofguinness
God would have to ask for forgiveness
bronypokey6918
Welp. There it is. In color
xheroth
Jesus
nombre11
circlebreaker
Don't deceive yourself @OP, similar things are still happening today. The war crimes weren't a symptom of the early 20th century.
korvkiosk
Thank you for posting.
madguillotine
I know colourization is not easy, but I generally prefer the original. To me, the b&w is almost always more haunting. Still, it's well done.
cddfftss7
As I mom I can see my own child in her. I can see my child in any child that is suffering. I feel sick. I wish I could snatch her from 1/2
cddfftss7
that picture and save her. Screw people who slaughter innocents and prey on Children. My heart aches for her and the so many others. 2/2
Revrot
Apocalypse
AudaciousCheeseburger
Dude that's a girl...haunting indeed.
cardboardunderwear
Wikipedia link of this girl. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82awa_Kwoka
ExTechOp
I think that means the kid should have the triangle colored blue instead of pink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
Onlypostcuteness
imagenyus
Really don't understand how a human can do this to someone else. I feel you have to love being sadistic to just beat on someone
RapidfireLouie
Never forget.
Intheshadowofgiants
That's the face of someone who hates the person she's looking at.
hellomynameispissoff
Or someone who's suffering and in fear for her life.
Grillparzer
She didn't understand what she was told to do because she didn't speak German. They beat her for it.
PaulLynde
Maybe not. Check this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Brasse The Photographer was a prisoner too.
AManWhoWasntThere
I want to visit Auschwitz one day...but i'm pretty sure i can't manage to do the whole visit...i've been told it is quite hard
DemonsPain88
Go while there are still survivors to share thier stories.
DsntEvenGoHere
I visited about a year ago, It brought me to tears.
Meckmester
My granddad survived Auschwitz, the stories he tells from the 3 years he was there is nightmare fuel and almost unbelievable.
DadJokesAreAlwaysFunny
Doesn't need colour to make the point about stupid ideological brutality...fuck extremism in all its forms
DerRattenfngerVonHameln
"In all it's forms" is also extremism. Don't take it personally, though, it's a famous paradox. Like "no ideologies allowed" is an ideology.
DadJokesAreAlwaysFunny
Agreed, some forms of extremism do more harm than others...
soapydux
I checked the link. Holy shit it’s good
darksamus8
Things equally bad are happening in Myanmar (Burma) right now. This very second. In 2018.
ArtOfKarolMichalec
And that’s Christians persecuting Muslims. Some fucking religion of love
izmi
And it's not publicised via the media nearly enough.
darksamus8
HONY and NYT have both run loads of pieces on it, but yea. It's not enough. You'd think humanity would fucking learn.
MaggGyver
And Chechnya. There are pogroms against LGBT people going on right now.
Asteroidrules
After the holocaust and after Rwanda we said never again, but it just keeps happening again and again and again.
Zeetje
And again... Xinjiang Uighur internment camps. US-mexico border camps.
epyonwing
The face of stubborn fear. Haunting.
molotovb
The fuck is stubborn fear? Isn't that a child who has no understanding whatsoever about this insane garbage? Doing what adults tell her to?
epyonwing
Something you've learned to be afraid of, but are still defiant against, in your heart and mind.
molotovb
She hasn't learned to be afraid of anything like that. She boarded a train, got her hair cut, and walked to the crematorium because adults
molotovb
told her to do so. "Stubborn fear" is melodramatic nonsense that doesn't even remotely apply to a child of her age.
Muppetwarior
Dunno why the downvote.
SankingDragon
See my comment. It's silly but not without unwarranted to downvote this.
InadequatelyLongUserName
Yeah, 90% of the time i browse imgur it's to escape the horrors of life, not be reminded of them, so it's tempting to downvote.
43rdpresident
Same.
theyar
It wasn't really that long ago that anything that was brutal or a downer would get deleted. I think it is (or was) in the rules that 1/2
theyar
imgur is an upbeat community, not a place to post horror and sadness. 2/2
zoezoebelle
Sometimes it's hard to look at these images because she looks so much like me. Hard to believe half my ancestors were killed 70 years ago.
zoezoebelle
Even harder to believe my family was attacked again in Charlottesville only last year, and our president defends it.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Like physically attacked? Under what circumstances?
zoezoebelle
Peacefully protesting the Nazis running through their home town screaming racist slurs. The Nazis punched, kicked and hit them with 1/2
zoezoebelle
their own signs while they held their hands behind their backs.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
How many arrests?
gernjer
Who would downvote this other than Nazis?
pronoun
Have you ever posted anything? Everything gets downvoted before it ever gets upvoted.
HeGotWeirdFetishes
The same people who complain that Imgur isn't a funny place anymore.
RobertNAdams
People who come here for dank memes & cat pics instead of depressing shit, I'd wager.
Bakakaze
challenge accepted
TheDyingLives
Who would upvote but Nazis?
HardlyThrough
People who've seen this many times before?
Falkornn
Pictures of this girl were on the front page literally last night.
livinglife9009
Dead nazis.
friendlyhippomuncher
Ah yes. The good old - if you don’t agree with me you are a Nazi mentality. Very healthy.
VinerialBlumpkin11
Welcome to this century/the internet.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
It's a minority of idiots working together to make everyone nervous. But don't worry, they're the "good guys."
gernjer
You do get that the girl in the picture was in a Nazi concentration camp, right?
sombrerohorsewagon
Super Nazis
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Super Nazi Vampires from Spaaaace
Kaurakexi
I never vote anything on imgur but come on. "Beaten to within an inch of her life"? Looks pretty well-being to me.
Biker222
She died shortly after this photo was taken. Have some decency.
Binerexis
Decency? She's dead, no amount of decency is going to change anything.
Biker222
I’m just going let your words speak for themselves. Perhaps when you grow up a bit you’ll feel differently.
Binerexis
Teach me how words can bring those back from the dead, old one
Abrausedteleprot
apart from her hair looking like its been cut with a hedge strimmer, the split lip and the coat so big its been pinned together.
Kaurakexi
Yeah, but still far from being beaten half to death.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Hyperbolic emotive language designed to elicit a reaction, it happens all the time. It's part of why I don't watch TV.
LurkyMcLurker
Grammar Nazis?
Cybran97
People who don't give a shit and are tired of seeing this come across our feeds because sheeple keep posting it thinking no one knows Nazis
IHaveToPeePee
Shut up ur like 20 yrs old, what do you know
lazygrinder
As soon as someone uses the term "sheeple" I assume they're a moron.
LongEaredGaloot
Imgurs, apparently.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Who would assume only Nazis would downvote this?
chastidy
Yeah honestly I can only picture Nazis WANTING to see this.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
I'm more thinking that the sort of person that assumes "Nazis" might have some kind of disorder or paranoid obsession with them.
chastidy
Probably someone who doesn't go to a fun image hosting site to see child genocide victims
monybony
When I first got on imgur as a lurker years ago, it was even more news and real life stories than now. No one complained then. Stfu!!
GutsTheStruggler
There's a reason imgur has diff. tags and sections etc. and you said it in your comment: Image hosting, not fun-happy-cater-to-me hosting.
chastidy
Really? I don't remember saying that in my comment.
GutsTheStruggler
Bc if you know WHAT an image hosting site is, and that imgur IS one, then you should drop the delusion that "fun" content is some sort of2/3
GutsTheStruggler
obligation and anything to the contrary is to be downvoted and discouraged.
chastidy
Get a job.
GutsTheStruggler
You don't remember calling it an "image hosting site", a term which denotes submission of ALL types of content, not just "fun" content? 1/
Gantzz321
Republicans that's deny it even happened
AshleyFosf8
Wow, you are incredibly ignorant.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Always blame the scary Republicans. You Americans make me sad, you'll use the Holocaust to push your politics any chance you get.
GutsTheStruggler
You just attacked a generalization WITH a generalization of almost exact equal caliber and nature. You gone 'n went full retard, son.
dagg3r
Whats that thing in the back of her head??
howcansomeonepossiblyhavethesameweirdusernamealready
Looks like the pommel of a riding whip, but could also be a walking stick or something similar.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
It could be to ensure the head is positioned perfectly for the mugshot.
Dreadric
The matrix
dagg3r
Now why would go and say a thing like that?
dagg3r
Legit feeking me out
dagg3r
/3 ohhh now i get it.. the head jack things.. see i decided to watch it tonight and you freaked me out..
DrScoundrel68
It's a post that braces the back of each person's head in the exact same position. This ensured that the camera didn't have to be refocused.
Mini007
I've seen photos of death pics, they have a post like this to hold their head up. It's screwed into their head
iSuey
I want to both upvote it and downvote it (but only because it made me sick thinking about it) so I commented
MrDumpling
But whys it look like her head is indented?
yarow12
That's what I was wondering. :/
DrScoundrel68
It's because they roughly and unevenly chopped her hair off and it's sticking up around the post.
MrDumpling
Idk that’s a pretty big indent.
JennaLand
I thought she was dead because it looks just like those things they used in the 1800s to prop people up for post mortem photos.
Mini007
Yes, I believe so to. I've seen those pics. She might be dead
Kredence
Complete agree. I believe she is dead
nmeunier
Sorry, but you've probably haven't seen what a dead person looks like. Their eyes don't look like this. It's much more blank than this.
Kredence
I worked in a medical device implant testing facility that practiced on cadavers and x-rayed the results. They seemed pretty dead to me.
StrixxSlade
Oddly tho most of those aren’t corpses. Just read an article about that.
JennaLand
Interesting. I looked into it. https://dealer042.wixsite.com/post-mortem-photos/blank
StrixxSlade
I remember it being a thing because people were selling these pictures of “corpses” for astronomical prices.
JennaLand
This article says that online companies promote the false articles because all they care about is clicks because they get paid by the click.
nmeunier
Good link. People are so easily fooled by what they see online. "Misinformation Highway" is right. Critical thinking is dead not those kids.
JennaLand
Lol
cardboardunderwear
I visited Auschwitz several years ago and the pictures of the kids on the wall was the most heart breaking. We must never forget 1/2
nevyy
Syria
railgap
We must never forget there are people in this world who DON'T get chills from reading about or looking at this history. On guarde.
railgap
En. >_<
chloesilverado
I was there years ago and still get emotional.
IllCaesar
The holocaust denialists are going to make a mad dash for recruitment about ten years from now once most survivors finally die off.
bleblebla
Israel Germany and some jewish groups try to pin blame for holocaust to Poles, only county where people were killed fof helping jews 1/...
bleblebla
2/ Still many did, and many died. Death penalty was fir the helper and their entire family, children included. The less survivors there is..
bleblebla
3/ easier it is to spin wchichever narrative suits your goals
booooooort
Then theres's that room full of hair they cut off of women and sold... fucking hell dude.
EllenLRipley
I almost threw up in front of all the hair. I don't know why, but that is what I had the most trouble seeing.
shapeofthingstocome
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-foribly-injected-african-immigrant-women-with-birth-control/#1a78908f67b8
RocketRodster
Forget? This brutality (to a lesser extent) is happening now in Syria, n. Korea, Eritrea,...
InadequatelyLongUserName
Sudan, Central African Republic and Myanmar as well.
RocketRodster
Fuck, I was just reading about Myanmar.
InadequatelyLongUserName
People being awful. Same shit, different day.
MaggGyver
Don't forget the gay people being tortured and killed in Chechnya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_concentration_camps_in_Chechnya
molotovb
Or a massive percentage of the population - women, children in equal percentages - destroyed by the multiple Russian invasions.
MaggGyver
Oh yes. The disaspora of ehtnic non-Russians from the surrounding countries.
molotovb
No, literally the population of Chechnya.
AshleyFosf8
And white farmers in South Africa
nakun7
Yeah... I went to the holocaust museum and nearly had a mental breakdown
VonKarmanVortexStreet
Yad Vashem?
TinyCactusss
Shoe room got me. That smell.
princessatigresa
.
Kate0808
Can you elaborate? I haven't been
TinyCactusss
It’s a room full of shoes, thousands of them, that were pulled from the victims feet upon arrival at the camps. Smelled like old leather
Kate0808
Thank you
molotovb
What smell?
TinyCactusss
Old leather, but it was very pungent.
MaggGyver
The Museum of Tolerance in LA gives each visitor a card with an inmate's photo and name. You don't find out what happened to that person 1/2
MaggGyver
until you exit the museum. Having that one human face has an emotional impact that is somehow more immediate than the exhibits. 2/2
molotovb
Yep. Massive numbers - 6 million, 12 million, seem to have a lesser impact compared to even a single life story of a victim or survivor.
SenoritaPotato
I went there for school.. mine and all her family died.. also went to Dachau.. both are horrible and soul crushing. Dachau was so much worse
mingotheflamingo
In 7th grade our English teacher taped pictures of child Holocaust victims on all our desks, will never forget the girl on mine.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Year 7 English? Wtf was wrong with her? 1. You were too young for that shit, 2. It has nothing to do with English.
ArtOfKarolMichalec
It has nothing do do with English?! In what language do you think kids read books novels stories and memoirs about it?!
iluvbunbuns
They aren't 7 yo, it's the 7th GRADE. 12-13. Our class saw Schindler's List in theatre in 7th grade.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/parentalguide
molotovb
What's your point? Parental guide written by whom? You, the parent? Or an organization with selfish interests in mind, not your child's?
IWasGoingToMakeEspresso
They have a censored version. I saw it on TV when I was about that age.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Year 7 is around when my school read Anne Frank. Was probably a way of bringing those kids to life for the class instead of 'dry lesson'.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
In Australia, that's the first year of High School. Leave happy Primary School and then BAM Anne Frank and pictures of concentration camps.
molotovb
Yeah, real life has a way of hitting you hard. Prepare for it or get fucked in the ass.
molotovb
Bullshit. 7th grade is the perfect age for kids to learn about the terrible wrongs of humanity. They're a couple of steps from being
molotovb
recruited and brainwashed into the military of their nation who's god knows what mission they have in store for them.
molotovb
Hitler youth started even earlier than this age, and kids were hopelessly lost in that indoctrination - even turning against their parents.
mingotheflamingo
We were reading books about the Holocaust in conjunction with a unit in History class on the subject.
minigreyhound
7th grade isn’t too young. They are 12-13 years old.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Mate, most of those kids are still watching cartoons and claiming they don't.
minigreyhound
Learning in school and watching cartoons at home aren’t mutually exclusive
molotovb
Mate, they're half a step away or closer from being at the age where governments are indoctrinating people to their political will.
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
Sometimes I wonder if we’ll see something similar in my lifetime... kinda why I’m a prepper and gun nut, I’m fearful of my kid’s future.
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
Meanwhile, in the US folks are trying to have gun rights culled cause our gov’mint is such a benevolent entity. (Sorry to go down that road)
AshleyFosf8
Sorry you're getting downvoted. Imgur seems to be primarily leftist, anti-capitalist, gun-haters, who downvote anything they disagree with.
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
haha god damn! I’m getting downvotes all over the place on this thread!
thatshytidontlike
Honest question: if an evil dictator orders a sizable military to throw you and your kids into a concentration camp, how will that help?
brankthefunny
1 prepper= no help. 1 million preppers is a different story. Lots of casualties, but a fighting chance, at least.
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
Not taking a side, but advanced weaponry costs millions to maintain. Those millions evaporate in a civil war.
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
history has shown that the military often splinters during a civil war-the weapons don't all go to one side.Not sure what side this favors
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
There will be NOTHING we can do... however, all the people who want to freely give away their guns and not fight, those of use who “prepare”
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DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
will shuffle those people to the front to die first
InadequatelyLongUserName
Look at the news. There won't be a front. You won't even have a chance to see your attackers much less harm them.
InadequatelyLongUserName
Guns at a drone fight, good idea.
AshleyFosf8
If we are all armed, it's harder to be overtaken. It at least slows the enemy down and reduces their resources.
InadequatelyLongUserName
Depends what the enemy wants. In most cases, no, your 19th century invention won't help you, slow the enemy down or reduce their resources.
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
We would all lose obviously... so we should all give up, not even try, hand over our weapons and lay down?
InadequatelyLongUserName
You could stockpile shit like a paranoid lunatic for the off chance you get to say i told you so before being blown up, sure, go for it.
AshleyFosf8
He's not being paranoid. He's being prepared.
DontTemptMeWithAGoodTime
I’m doing a little bit of that... although I’m not on the “complete loon” end of the spectrum
cardboardunderwear
2/2 these things. Any country or culture can be capable of the same brutality.
railgap
Can be. But only a small handful actually have, so far.
lilchan16
North Korea camps
InquisitorOctaviusoftheOrdoMalleus
I've been to Dachau there was a very present melancholy and cold on the air inside the walls did you notice that at Auschwitz?
cardboardunderwear
I was there in the summer and didn't notice anything like that. But it's definitely a very somber and sad place.
Brutsarge
Yes they can. And the biggest crime is to do nothing
icantevenWot
You could always help killing people which would make it a bigger crime...?
molotovb
Curious, what have you done?
spratacuss
probably just that comment ^
molotovb
Ah, and a childish downvote.
duckels
Even Canadians?
Thalarctos
There's similar bullshit happening in Burma and Venezuela both right now. The Burmese stuff is all because of Jade.
Jovikvon
Don't forget west Papua and Myanmar
Thalarctos
Myanmar is Burma. But yes, it is not limited to those two places. Syria too, for example.